Posts Tagged ‘4g’

Phonoscope to Provide 10 Gbps Wireless Backhaul

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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Houston-based metro access provider Phonoscope provides a wide variety of networking solutions, including Ethernet and optical transport services to business, government, education and residential service provider customers across seven counties.

Phonoscope is building a new, high-capacity optical network that connects 25 fault tolerant, multi-gigabit Ethernet rings.

One of the first customers of these new services, said to be a large, nationwide wireless service provider, will use the network to carry aggregated 4G LTE mobile backhaul traffic at 10 Gbps from its cell sites.


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KPN to Upgrade Backhaul

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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Netherlands-based KPN International has selected Swedish vendor Ericsson to upgrade its mobile backhaul for its Belgian and German subsidiaries over the course of the next three years.

Under the terms of the deal, Ericsson will install more than 15,000 “MINI-LINK” transmission node links in the two countries before the end of 2013, with the upgrade being carried out with a view to ensuring that both KPN Group Belgium and Germany’s E-Plus Mobilfunk are able to cope with increasing demand from mobile users for data services, while boosting the efficiency of their respective networks.

Ericsson meanwhile has claimed that the mobile backhaul upgrade will lead to lower costs per bit, as well as allowing for a smooth migration from Time Division Multiplex (TDM) to packet transport, and providing the opportunity to scale microwave up to gigabit capacities step-by-step.


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Wireless Service Providers Boost Ethernet Backhaul Buying

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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It is not news that wireless service providers are upgrading their backhaul connections to support fourth generation networks. As a result, 2011 was the first year that wireless operators bought a higher percentage of wholesale metro connections at speeds above DS-3 (45 Mbps) than below that rate.

At the same time, Ethernet connections grew to represent 29 percent of new backhaul links, up from 16 percent in 2010.

“From 2010 to 2011, wireless buyers’ portion of local transport spending dedicated specifically to Ethernet increased by 13 percent, while for the rest of the industry, Ethernet spending grew five percent,” said company CEO Dr.  Judy Reed Smith.

About 17 percent of executvies surveyed by Atlantic-ACM said they would increase buying of Ethernet private line connections in 2012

About 16 percent of respondents said they would increase buying of switched Ethernet services, while 14 percent said they would buy more Ethernet direct Internet access.


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